Who said life is unfair

Just that, while complaining always remember there are millions still struggling to be you or what you are. It teaches us that there is always inequality in life.

Just look at the animals around you: Some are bigger than others, some are stronger than others, some live longer than others, some dominate others, and some survive at the expense of others. Life is simply unfair. The number one rule being that all rules were subject to change--and always in favor of the adult. Mack Lewis , Black Market Angels. You are worth nothing. You realize it after a while and spend the rest of your life heaving under the weight of this realization.

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Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that. Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors. Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people.

Maybe you won't find the right person and you won't end up getting married. Oh, well, life is unfair. But married people, because of their capacity to have children, even if they're not going to end up having children, even if they're unable to bear children, marriage is an institution that is absolutely central to civilization.

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement.

If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage.

So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water. Nothing in life is unfair. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to blame. I also thought of my two boys and what kind of example I hoped to be. I would always want them to take charge of their own futures and not be paralyzed by the comfort and certainty of the status quo or be cowed by the judgment of those on the outside looking in.

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